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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] __bd_forget should wait for inodes using the mapping
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 11:41:43AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> > And yes, ->i_mapping flips on "normal" bdev inodes will go away - we set
> > ->f_mapping on open directly.
>
> Fair enough, I'll cook up some code to bump the inode->bdev->bd_inode
> i_count in __sync_single_inode It won't be pretty either though, I'll
> have to drop the inode_lock so that some function can take the bdev_lock
> to safely use inode->i_bdev.

*Ugh*

You do realize that ->i_bdev is not promised to be there either? Could you
show the actual code that steps into this mess?
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